A meeting of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Council of Complaints (CoC) Islamabad was held here on Tuesday. The meeting was chaired by Syed Muhammad Ali Bukhari at its regional office, said a press release issued here. The meeting was attended by its members Mazhar Barlas, Naeem Khan, Talat Azeem, Nighat Saeed, Batool Zain […]
Pakistan made its mark on day two of GITEX GLOBAL 2022, dubbed the world’s largest tech show, where the audience at a session titled ‘Pakistan Innovation Day’ heard from the country’s IT minister as well as big wigs of its tech sector. Minister Syed Amin Ul Haque said Pakistan’s tech sector has grown 150% since […]
ISLAMABAD: Despite having reasonable legislation in all four provinces and federal, citizens are having obstacles in access to information in Pakistan. Muhammad Naeem – RTI Activist from Mardan – while talking with “The Reporters” said, poor implementation of the Right to Information Laws have made it useless for a common citizen. Some of my complaints […]
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday restrained authorities from acting against Information Secretary Shaheera Shahid, acting PTV managing director Sohail Ali Khan and director news Rashid Baig Mirza. They were seeking court’s protection against FIRs registered against them in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah took up the petitions. […]
ISLAMABAD—Journalists Khurram Hussain and Sami Ibrahim have regretted including their names in the list of the social media accounts which allegedly ran a negative campaign over the crash of a Pakistan Army helicopter in Lasbella in August this year. The alleged list prepared by FIA was leaked on Sunday. A total of 580 social media […]
The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi on Saturday launched academic Dr Aasim Sajjad Akhtar’s book ‘The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons’ in its City Campus. The discussion featured talks by the author who is an associate professor of political economy, IBA Executive Director Dr S Akbar Zaidi, visiting faculty […]
KARACHI: Karachiites witnessed inconvenience on Saturday morning as the mobile phone services were down in several parts of the city due to protective measures on account of Eid Milad un Nabi (PBUH), falling on Sunday (September 9). Source: Business Recorder
Journalist Asad Ali was allegedly assassinated near Zero Point in Islamabad in which his car was rammed by another vehicle and the accused fled the scene immediately. Senior Journalist Hamid Mir tweeted that there has been a murderous attack on journalists. He further wrote that he was attacked in Islamabad last year as well. Hamid […]
ISLAMABAD: The investigation agencies have compiled a list of 814 national and international social media activists, including journalists and bloggers, engaged in propagating against the state institutions and political, government and sensitive personalities, sources told The News. The authorities have scrutinised 580 accounts of such activists and divided them into five basic categories based on […]
ISLAMABAD: In order to launch broadband cellular networks including 5G and other latest voice, data, satellite and other networks, the government has planned to withdraw the fragmented spectrum already available to different public sector organisations including defence and law enforcement agencies and auction that to telecom operators, satellites and other communication networks. This major endeavour […]
LAHORE: A session’s court on Friday acquitted four accused in the murder case of journalist Hasnain Shah after the complainant and the witnesses resiled from their statements. Shah’s widow Mehwish, who was the complainant in the first information report (FIR), stated before the court that the accused prosecuted by the police had no role in […]
ISLAMABAD: TikTok has removed more than 15 million videos from Pakistan and ranked second in the world for the largest volume taken for violating community guidelines in the second quarter (Q2) 2022. TikTok, has released its latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report for Q2 2022 (April-June 2022), building on its commitment to a multi-pronged approach to […]
PESHAWAR: Coalition on Right to Information (CRTI) has demanded the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to fill two vacant seats of information commissioners in the KP Information Commission (KPIC) immediately. A statement issued here said that due to delays in appointment of the information commissioners the citizens’ constitutional right to access information held by public bodies had […]
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Members of Punjab cabinet have strongly reacted to help by provincial police to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in arrests of social media users. Punjab cabinet meeting, chaired by PTI Chairman Imran khan, decided to seek explanation from IG Punjab over the matter. The letter penned to IG Punjab, directs him to […]
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